丅ᕼᗴ ᒪ ᔕɊᑌᗩᗪ - L x OC -

Mello is a dodgy kid.

My eyes feel watery and my head aches.

I feel a movement from beside me.

There's no sound but a dull ringing as Mihael shifts the blanket of rubble before we both stumble into thick smoke.

Sound seeps into my ears gradually, and as we escape to fresh air I witness him hover a hand over the side of his face with a pained grimace.

"Are you ok?" I cough.

Mihael looks at me in confusion, before pointing to his ears.

Oh, right, they must still be ringing from the explosion.

WOah his face...

HE'S STILL BEAUTIFUL!

My poor baby.

Half of his face is beginning to blister from a burn.

I think I'm unharmed, other than a few cuts and bruises on my arms.

Inside my belly is a very safe place...

Lucky little babes.

We continue out into the maze of alleyways beyond the base, using the walls to support our still shaky limbs.

Well, this is why you don't blow up a building when you're still inside!

Eventually, we come out into the main city.

"Can we be here? Is it safe to be so out in the open?" I ask as we emerge into the sunlight.

Cars and busses cough up petrol fumes and loud noises from the roads.

"We'll be alright... they don't have the means of searching for us across the whole city. We'd be extremely unlucky if we were found." Mihael narrows his eyes and decides to turn left down a smaller street, hiding his face under a hood.

"You look like a dodgy kid."

"I am a dodgy kid," he growls.

I don't know where we're going, so I ask after five minutes of walking hurriedly.

"I found someone who's working with Near, we can use them to get to him."

"Ohhh... Halle, right?"

Mihael turns to me for a moment. "I still find it strange how you know everything," he says gruffly.

Well, that's perfectly normal.

I find myself strange...

Ow... it's annoying to walk when you're so heavily pregnant.

"Marshmallow, I'm gonna die soon... can we stop walking?"

"Alright," he rolls his eyes, "we're almost there, just don't call me that."

"Hehe..."

Halle Lidner lives in a small average flat.

Mihael breaks in and hides behind the door with a gun.

I try not to eat all the food in her kitchen.

Luckily she arrives soon and is very much shocked.

"Mello..." Halle says in a gasp.

"A word to Near, and I shoot."

I blink. "That's not very considerate, Mello," I scold. "I thought we raised you better."

He glares at me before turning back to the woman held at gunpoint.

"What do you want?" Halle snaps nervously.

I groan, "foooood...."

"To catch Kira, same as you."